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Most recent forum messagesenWed, 17 Oct 2012 15:31:15 GMTJive SBS 4.5.6.0 (http://jivesoftware.com/products/clearspace/)2012-10-17T15:31:15ZenRe: Strange worm-like bug in baby's nursery! Please help identifyhttp://www.nhm.ac.uk/natureplus/message/24826?tstart=0#24826
<!-- [DocumentBodyStart:e6c2d5dc-f9dd-41e5-944f-06077e493100] --><div class="jive-rendered-content"><p>Thanks very much! Now I know what it is I've read a bit about it and it does indeed seem to be a 'case-bearing clothes moth'....</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;">&#160;</p><p>Now, just to get rid of them!! :S</p></div><!-- [DocumentBodyEnd:e6c2d5dc-f9dd-41e5-944f-06077e493100] -->Wed, 17 Oct 2012 15:31:15 GMThttp://www.nhm.ac.uk/natureplus/message/24826?tstart=0#24826TMoram862012-10-17T15:31:15Z2 years, 5 months ago0Re: Strange worm-like bug in baby's nursery! Please help identifyhttp://www.nhm.ac.uk/natureplus/message/24761?tstart=0#24761
<!-- [DocumentBodyStart:3c8439aa-0577-4cc9-85df-17cb9c072fba] --><div class="jive-rendered-content"><p>Clothes moth larva, so harmless.</p><p><a class="jive-link-external-small" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tinea_pellionella">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tinea_pellionella</a></p></div><!-- [DocumentBodyEnd:3c8439aa-0577-4cc9-85df-17cb9c072fba] -->Mon, 15 Oct 2012 16:49:58 GMThttp://www.nhm.ac.uk/natureplus/message/24761?tstart=0#24761Moo2012-10-15T16:49:58Z2 years, 5 months ago10Strange worm-like bug in baby's nursery! Please help identifyhttp://www.nhm.ac.uk/natureplus/message/24555?tstart=0#24555
<!-- [DocumentBodyStart:b5b92020-a714-4785-906f-c53752ec7375] --><div class="jive-rendered-content"><p>Hi, </p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;">&#160;</p><p>I've noticed recently the bugs in the below images in my house. We cleared some things out from under the bed a few months ago, and found around 10 of these little white things that looked like grains of rice, only they were moving! So, naturally - I steam cleaned the carpets in that room, cleaned all furniture etc and thought it was fine. </p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;">&#160;</p><p>Now over the past few weeks I have found 2-3 of these just on the WALLS in another room (our babies nursery!). So the last one I saw, I got on a bit of tissue and photographed up close with camera on Macro setting. Someone suggested they may be tapeworms (we have 2 cats) but we regularly worm both of our cats, and plus - how would a tape worm end up on the wall?</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;">&#160;</p><p>They seem to be worm-like creatures with the brown head which they stick out of the furry-white looking 'body' and then kind of pull the rest of themselves along behind them. They are about the same size of a grain of rice.</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;">&#160;</p><p>Can anyone definitley identify them for us and provide any advice or reccomendations? Are they dangerous (considering we found them in baby's nursery?!) How can we get rid of them? </p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;">&#160;</p><p>Thanks in advance for any help you can give.</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;">&#160;</p><p>Tom</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;">&#160;</p><p><a href="http://www.nhm.ac.uk/natureplus/servlet/JiveServlet/showImage/2-24555-41797/bug1.jpg"><img alt="bug1.jpg" class="jive-image-thumbnail jive-image" height="285" onclick="" src="http://www.nhm.ac.uk/natureplus/servlet/JiveServlet/downloadImage/2-24555-41797/450-285/bug1.jpg" width="450"/></a></p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;">&#160;</p><p><a href="http://www.nhm.ac.uk/natureplus/servlet/JiveServlet/showImage/2-24555-41798/bug2.jpg"><img alt="bug2.jpg" class="jive-image-thumbnail jive-image" height="318" onclick="" src="http://www.nhm.ac.uk/natureplus/servlet/JiveServlet/downloadImage/2-24555-41798/450-318/bug2.jpg" width="450"/></a></p></div><!-- [DocumentBodyEnd:b5b92020-a714-4785-906f-c53752ec7375] -->Sun, 07 Oct 2012 14:14:29 GMThttp://www.nhm.ac.uk/natureplus/message/24555?tstart=0#24555TMoram862012-10-07T14:14:29Z2 years, 5 months ago20